The Sky Bet Championship is heading to its conclusion after an action-packed Easter weekend.

Norwich City are now on the verge of automatic promotion but were made to wait a bit longer following their 2-2 draw with Stoke, meanwhile, Sheffield United were given the upper hand after their win and Leeds United’s fumble at Brentford.

Further down the play-off places, Derby County and Aston Villa eased past QPR and Millwall respectively at home - with West Brom dropping points at Reading.

With the stakes at an all-time high following some disastrous results for teams hopeful of a dream promotion, we examine how the manager’s reacted following an eventful Easter weekend.

Norwich City

Norwich left Stoke City disappointed but the gaffer had absolutely nothing but praise for his team’s performance, and nothing but disdain for the officials.

"Unbelievable warm words for my lads. I just can't praise the character and the attitude and mentality. For me it's outstanding, it's world class. And this dressing room is still special and unique,” said Farke.

"My feeling during this game is we had to handle so many odds and so many situations against us.

"In the recent weeks, we've already handled it pretty kind and disciplined and respectful and pretty friendly. But it didn't change for me today.

"It was another spotlight of decisions against us and my feeling is it's not acceptable anymore."

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Chris Wilder’s United probably had the best weekend out of all the promotion-chasing pack with a ruthless 3-0 victory at Hull. Of course, Wilder was full of gratitude for his players but also looking straight ahead.

"We've not taken any short-cuts and we needed a big weekend," said Wilder.

"Our preparation was good. To win games at the top end of the Championship you've got to tick a lot of boxes, and we ticked a lot of boxes.

"The position speaks for itself - 85 points with two games to go.

"We've just to get our heads down and recover well. We're in (training) tomorrow and we've just got to make sure we prepare in the right way.

"We need to focus and make sure we take the opportunity on Saturday (at home to Ipswich). We are playing at a decent standard. We are in good nick."

Leeds United

Marcelo Bielsa and Leeds were dealt a heavy blow at the weekend, suffering a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Brentford - heavily denting their automatic promotion hopes.

After the final whistle, the Argentine was full of remorse for a lack of decent finishing - claiming they’d be promoted by now if they found the net more often.

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Frank Lampard’s Derby County were made to work till the bitter end for their dramatic stoppage-time victory against QPR, with Liverpool loanee Harry Wilson nicking two goals in added time.

The win saw Derby climb up to the last remaining Play-Off spot on goal difference with just two games remaining - and now the Rams have it in their hands.

"I think the fans appreciate that even more than beautiful football, sometimes, and that's why we had the stadium rocking at the end,” exclaimed Lampard to Derbyshire Live at the final whistle.

"It's a difficult one, because people probably roll up and expect us to score a shedload of goals at home, because of the last two performances.

"I said to the players that complacency could be a danger. I don't think we had that, but we had just a little half a yard off on second balls, half a yard too slow with our passing, half a second of waiting to play forward when we could have done.

"That was my message at half-time, really, and I thought we upped that a bit in the second half.”

Middlesbrough

Thanks to Boro’s 3-0 drubbing at the hands of Nottingham Forest, Tony Pulis’ side have now handed the initiative to Derby ahead of the concluding Play-Off race.

Even though it’s far from over, the former Stoke City boss was full of regret speaking after the game - criticising his side’s lack of creativity going forward and solidarity at the back.

“We felt we could take the game to Sheffield Wednesday and in the first 15 minutes, we didn't do enough.

“We weren't bright enough around our feet, we weren't sharp enough, we didn't stop Bannan dictating and we had a couple of warning signs with a couple of great balls played in that quarterback role.

“After that, I thought we were the better side who played the better football. I was very disappointed with the goal for a number of reasons - we can't keep giving ourselves a mountain to climb by gifting the opposition in the first 15 minutes.

“At half-time I wanted a couple to raise their intensity and they did. And then we played the better football without having that killer instinct and putting the opposition to the sword.”